Michelle W Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Hi. I’m still learning Affinity Designer and I found the “expand stroke” in the upper left ... menu on the iPad but it doesn’t seem to be expanding the line. I even tried convert to curves, closing and reopening the document, scaling, joining to another line and it still isn’t working so I’m wondering if there is another step or something I am missing. Thank you for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 9 hours ago, Michelle W said: Hi. I’m still learning Affinity Designer and I found the “expand stroke” in the upper left ... menu on the iPad but it doesn’t seem to be expanding the line. I even tried convert to curves, closing and reopening the document, scaling, joining to another line and it still isn’t working so I’m wondering if there is another step or something I am missing. Thank you for your help. Hi Michelle W The stroke has to be thick enough for it to work effectively. EDIT or appear to (as Alfred mentions). Here is a single, fat line. I did 'Expand Stroke' and then selected it with the Node Tool Expand Stroke has turned the line into a shape with nodes all around. Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 7 minutes ago, toltec said: The stroke has to be thick enough for it to work effectively. You should find that you just need to keep zooming in until it looks thick. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle W Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 Thank you for the response. I tried several times at various zoom levels until it was off the screen and couldn’t get it to work so I ended up tracing the lines. I’m hoping it works better in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 16, 2018 Staff Share Posted November 16, 2018 Hi Michelle W, Welcome to Affinity Forums If your stroke/line is based on a brush that uses a raster texture it can't be converted/expanded to a shape - which is probably what you were trying to do. Only the brushes from the Basic category and some from the Assorted category (the ones that don't use raster textures/are pure vector based) can be expanded to a shapes. Pisinee Tantiweerawong, Cealcrest, Alfred and 1 other 2 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle W Posted November 19, 2018 Author Share Posted November 19, 2018 Ah... that makes sense. I’m in the vector persona and picked a brush with a tapered stroke thinking they were all vector but I believe I imported this one from online. Thank you very much for explaining. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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